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Jack Shaw

Jack Shaw, Senior Advisor, Labour Together and Productivity Fellow at The Productivity Institute Policy Unit

Career

Jack Shaw is a seasoned policy expert with a decade of experience in local government. His focus is on regional economics, devolution, local government, and industrial policy, particularly the interplay between policy and practical implementation.

Shaw has held positions at prominent organizations like IPPR, the Local Government Association, and Parliament. Currently, he is a Senior Advisor at Labour Together and serves as a Fellow at The Productivity Institute at the University of Manchester and the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. He is also a trustee at the Manchester-based homelessness charity Justlife.

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